On this second disc, shorts are offered in a flora-and-fauna themed "Nature On Screen" menu, or the rhythmic "Accent On Music," which features shorts that are more musically influenced and Fantasia-like than other Symphonies. Interestingly, from the evidence shown on the menu images and the "Galleries" section of disc 2, it seems there may have been other shorts planned for inclusion on the set but, but inexplicably dropped - most notably The Goddess of Spring, which did show up earlier on the Platinum Edition of Snow White. Others include Cock of the Walk, Merbabies, and The Pied Piper. There is little worry that these shorts will make it to the eventual second volume of the Silly Symphonies.

but soon her angry father chases after them, and many hijinks ensue. The couple gets into even more trouble when they run smack into a grouchy dragon. Though mildly entertaining, the short is replete with Chinese stereotypes, which were of course to be expected in the early days of cinema.

Egyptian Melodies (1931) (6:20)
This quirky little short experiments with new techniques and borrows from old ones. Set inside an ancient Egyptian tomb, a little spider character leads us down the shaft in an almost 3-dimensional, video game-like manner. It succeeds at its intended effect of feeling quite creepy. Thereafter, four mummies do a dance number similar to The Skeleton Dance short, and Egyptian hieroglyphs and painted characters come to life to march, dance, and race their way across the wall.

Birds of a Feather (1931) (8:05)
Visual gags dominate three-fourths of this short as the animators have fun with the design idiosyncrasies of various species of birds. The last two minutes or so follow the travails of a mother hen as her misfit chick is snatched by a hawk, who is then attacked by a volley of blackbirds that are apparently on the hen’s side.

Cookie Carnival (1935) (8:01)
Set in a land composed entirely of cookies and sweets (including its inhabitants), a grand ceremony called the Cookie Carnival has just gone underway. Pageant-like entries parade down the street in hopes of becoming the Cookie Queen. One forlorn figure is spotted by a friendly hobo cookie (voiced by Pinto Colvig, naturally), and with his help and a bit of savvy, she gets into the parade and is enthusiastically deemed the new queen. One of my childhood favorites, this short boasts a brilliant palette of colors and wonderful art design.

Music Land (1935) (9:34)
A fun, and most certainly musical, Symphony about two kingdoms - the Land of Symphony and the Isle of Jazz - separated by the Sea of Discord and mutual misunderstanding. Another Romeo & Juliet spin, the two kingdoms' respective heirs - a violin princess and a saxophone prince - have a forbidden love for one another. Unlike Shakespeare's tale, however, this one has a happy ending - as colossal feuding between the cello queen and the saxophone king gives way to luuuurve. The story's origins come from the genuine discord and dilemma the public faced in the 1930s between classic orchestral music and the new upstart genre of jazz. One very entertaining feature of the short is the use of musical instruments - mostly the violin and saxophone - to mimic human speech and inflection. Only makes sense, as the characters are musical instruments, after all!

Mother Pluto (1936) (8:36)
The second of the two Pluto-starring shorts on this set, this Symphony finds our canine hero accidentally imprinting a flock of chicks. Though he only sees them as an annoyance at first, the innocent baby birds soon grow on him and grows fiercely protective of them - even from the chicks' actual mother.

The Old Mill (1936) (8:56)
A short famous for its "field testing" of the multiplane camera effect shortly before use on Snow White, this Symphony about a stormy night at an abandoned windmill (and the effects it has on the mill's various wild inhabitants) exhibits several impressive special effects animation shots, as well as proficient use of multiplane technology.

Of its 19 total Symphonies, Disc 1 features 14 directly listed shorts - that is, they are featured in the themed index menu pages of "Fables and Fairy Tales" and "Favorite Characters." The other "missing" five are The Grasshopper and the Ants, Who Killed Cock Robin?, Water Babies, The Practical Pig, and Wynken, Blynken, and Nod. The "play all" feature plays back 17 shorts - all except Who Killed Cock Robin?. "Leonard's Picks" offers access to The Grasshopper and the Ants and Wynken, Blynken, and Nod - with skippable introduction speeches attached. Otherwise, menu hunting is in order to locate these shorts.

The "S" of the word "Symphonies" on disc 1's main menu plays a clip from Walt's long-running anthology series "Disneyland" - a standard for all of the eggs. In these intros, which can be skipped to access the short itself, Walt often reads a letter from a viewer asking to see the relevant short once again and then obliges, often giving some history on the Symphony's story origins beforehand. This first clip shows a short animated sequence illustrating a brief history of moral fables, from ancient China to the papyruses of Egypt, right up to the Greek storyteller Aesop himself. Playing immediately afterward is The Grasshopper and the Ants in its entirety.

Highlighting the sword of the robber kitten image on the second page of the "Fables and Fairy Tales" menu will yield another "Disneyland" clip, which features an animated sequence of English writer Charles Kingsley making up a whimsical tale off the cuff for his son as they fish. Walt reveals that this author wrote the original story of the Water Babies that the studio adapted into a Silly Symphony in 1935. The short plays upon the finish of the intro's animated sequence.

The topmost chick image on the "Favorite Characters" menu plays a rather lengthy clip from

"Disneyland" wherein Walt gives a real history lesson on the origins of the nursery rhyme Who Killed Cock Robin? - complete with woodcut illustrations. The short plays after this; note that this is the only way to access this short on the disc. If you don't remember where and how to find it, you're deprived of viewing one of the best shorts on disc one, in my humble opinion!

Highlighting the name "Leonard" in the "Leonard's Picks" title on that menu yields a look at the life of Chicago children's author Eugene Field, who penned Dutch Lullaby, better known as Wynken, Blynken, and Nod. And of course, the latter's Silly Symphony adaptation plays afterward.

The last Easter egg on Disc 1 can be found by selecting the little lone water baby image on the left margin of the captions menu. Walt again appears to give a brief history on the success of the Three Little Pigs short and its subsequent spinoffs. The last canon short produced was The Practical Pig in 1939, which plays immediately following.

Disc 2 directly lists 17 of its 18 shorts - all but Farmyard Symphony. Curiously, the "play all" feature plays only 16 shorts - apparently Woodland Café was mistakenly left out of the list when the disc was authored; this trend was verified on 2 separate copies of the set. After the shorts, the two extra featurettes also play automatically.

The first of two Easter eggs on this disc can be found by highlighting the faces of the two little girl bunnies on the first page of the "Nature on Screen" menu; a star will appear, and if you press enter you'll once again be treated to the cocked eyebrows of Walt Disney, as he relates the history of experimenting with special effects animation (such as wind, rain, lightning, etc.) on the Silly Symphony short The Old Mill, before trying such techniques on their in-production, first feature-length film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Following this intro is, of course, The Old Mill itself.

The disc's second, and last overall, Easter egg is found on the "Accent on Music" menu by highlighting the saxophone prince's hat. Walt appears to give us some insight on the popular mythic character of the cock, Chanticleer - a pompous figure who believes it is his crowing that brings the sun up every morning. He is featured in a more generic, nameless form in the Silly Symphony Farmyard Symphony, which plays afterward. Like Who Killed Cock Robin? on disc 1, this is the only method of accessing this short, and requires a fairly good memory to find again and again. Also like the aforementioned, this is one of the best and most entertaining shorts found on disc 2 - though that may just be my childhood nostalgia giving me a bit of a bias again!